I used to be a Sandstorm user but yes it was abandoned. Have been a Cloudron guy since the start and have been very happy with it.
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Applied, rejected within a day, got an email from a hiring manager four weeks later asking me to re-apply, very sorry etc etc, bad screener he had to look over everything again.
I re-apply, two interviews, asked to do a presentation and then a video on strategic threats to the org, spent two days of my holiday doing it (tight schedule from Twitter), sent, no reply for two weeks, get an email back saying they wanted it to be more tactical.
I pointed out what they said (it needs to be strategic), they come back two weeks later, very sorry etc, they would love to move me to next stage, one week later hiring manager doesn't turn up for interview, two days later apologises, asks me to meet with his senior manager in two weeks. I agree.
Recruiter then turns around and says, sorry not what they are looking for. No other explanation. Next day emails me asking would I apply for another position. I say, "Hmmm not so sure. Perhaps. What's the comp?" He says "Great, I think you will fit well. I will go check it." Then ghosted...
Was a cool role. But still. I'm in a position were I am also interviewing the people on the other side of the table. I'd love to have helped build something they needed about that fusion and analysis.
But sorry, in that context, just not good enough. That's my first dealing with your company. Why should I trust anything else will be better?
I worked in Westminster for a bit. That and "The Thick of It" were actually more realistic than many staged managed and PR airbrushed documentaries I have seen.
I explained why. Then they asked me to explain who this "Federal Reserve" was. I laughed thinking they were joking...Then found myself having to actually explain it. They then had me on hold for ten minutes when they checked with their manager...
There is tons of accountability for some stuff ("How much diesel did you put in that jeep?") but very little for people's time ("Let's have 300 infantry here an hour earlier than necessary before an event, even though it costs X per hour per person for them to be standing around doing nothing.)
It's also the same around some safety stuff ("Everyone wear a reflective belt going on a run") vs time base safety stuff ("That platoon has just been on exercise and barely slept for 72 hours and everyone is now driving home.")
Don't get me started on the overall wastage the military spends on talent management. Doing an extremely expensive and complex course that takes a year+ to complete? Cool, you might often be actually fullfilling that role for one/two years max afterwards before your moved on to next role doing something different elsewhere.
https://citizenlab.ca/2020/06/dark-basin-uncovering-a-massiv...
"Israeli charged in global hacker-for-hire scheme wants plea deal -court filing" https://www.reuters.com/technology/israeli-charged-global-ha...
It's not just Exxon of course, I've worked on a number of similar cases were huge money was run through lawyers, corporate intelligence firms etc to manipulate and target environmental and human rights groups. My sense is that this is only really the beginning of a huge amount more of this shady practice in the industry being exposed.
-Incident response in the age of cloud
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